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Burglars strike at Carnegie School

Jan 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Burglars strike at Carnegie School

Investigators have questioned three security guards who were on duty Wednesday night when burglars entered the Carnegie School of Home Economics located on High and D’Urban Streets, Georgetown, and...

Kissoon wraps up testimony in Jagdeo libel case

Jan 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Kissoon wraps up testimony in Jagdeo libel case

One of the defendants in the Bharrat Jagdeo libel suit case, Frederick Kissoon, wrapped up his testimony in the High Court yesterday before Justice Barrington Reynolds, following re-examination by...

New housing for affected residents

Jan 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on New housing for affected residents

Government has made good on its word to provide assistance to the residents whose properties were destroyed or severely affected when an American-registered aircraft crashed at Sparendaam, East Coast...

City man to face judge, jury for alleged rape

Jan 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on City man to face judge, jury for alleged rape

A 24-year-old-man who is accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl of West Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, Georgetown is now set to face a Judge and Jury. On Wednesday, Orwayne Welcome of 38 Castello...

Owners of “sunken” cargo vessel suspect foul play

Jan 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Owners of “sunken” cargo vessel suspect foul play

– Unable to contact Captain and crew The owners of the MV Stollie 1, which was reported to have sunk 45 miles off the Waini River mouth with $80M worth of cargo, are harbouring deep suspicions...

The loss of dignity is a natural outcome of dictatorship

Jan 24, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The loss of dignity is a natural outcome of dictatorship

When someone becomes your hero, there is a cluster of memories you keep about that person and they will always spring to mind, and will do so until you leave this world. I am sure the admirers of...

Bisram is no Indian triumphalist

Jan 24, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bisram is no Indian triumphalist

Dear Editor, Instead of focusing on Alexei Ramotar’s performance and qualification, M. Maxwell delved into personality and character assassination in his usual self denigrating of peoples’...

Mr. Bisram seeks to misrepresent his Opponent’s position

Jan 24, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Bisram seeks to misrepresent his Opponent’s position

Dear Editor, Mr. Devanand Bhagwan (Letter in KN Jan. 4), titled, “Antagonists should not deviate from the crux of the matter”), feels that I have not addressed the “salient points of the...

Kissoon’s arguments rife with assumptions

Jan 24, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kissoon’s arguments rife with assumptions

Dear Editor, I did not see the programme on the National CommunicationsNetwork (NCN) to which Mr. Frederick Kissoon (“Guyana had sovereignty under President Burnham:” KN: 12/01/2014) referred so...

Gloomy days are ahead for Guyana

Jan 24, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Gloomy days are ahead for Guyana

Dear Editor, Ever since we began writing letters, we have tried to give some sense of what we could discern ahead for Guyana in 2014 under this PPP regime. In so doing, notwithstanding how difficult...

Disrespecting the Cuban-trained doctors

Jan 24, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Disrespecting the Cuban-trained doctors

Dear Sir, I wish to address this letter to the Hon. Minister of Health, Dr Beri Ramsaran. It concerns the doctors who have studied in Cuba and have since returned to practise here, mainly to fulfill...

An act of sheer brutality

Jan 24, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on An act of sheer brutality

Dear Editor, The Harding allegations of torture by means of a baton pushed into the anus of a prisoner is an act of sheer brutality. Whether the Ministers concerned deny the act or not, and whether...

A bubbling cauldron

Jan 24, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A bubbling cauldron

Ever so steadily – and insidiously – there is developing in our country a tale of two societies: one super-rich and the other desperately struggling to keep their heads above the water of...

Triumph handyman stabbed to neck

Jan 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Triumph handyman stabbed to neck

…assailant on the run After being accused of stealing a bicycle, 48-year-old Troy Hope called ‘G’, was beaten and stabbed to the neck. He is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital...

Guyana mulls introduction of automatic ballot counting system

Jan 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana mulls introduction of automatic ballot counting system

Results of future elections in Guyana may be announced much earlier if a pilot project to test an automatic ballot scan and tabulation system proves successful. According to the Guyana Elections...

Baroombar murder accused thrashed in prison

Jan 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Baroombar murder accused thrashed in prison

Kurt Clarke, the 34-year-old accused in the Baroombar murder case, was yesterday rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after allegedly receiving a sound thrashing in the Camp...

Harding leaves for medical attention in Jamaica

Jan 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Harding leaves for medical attention in Jamaica

Alleged police brutality victim, Colwyn Harding, will be jetting out to Jamaica tomorrow (Friday) to access medical treatment, having been discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) last...

High profile cases among first sitting of criminal assizes

Jan 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on High profile cases among first sitting of criminal assizes

Several high profile cases have been listed for the first sitting of the Demerara Criminal Assizes. Among the matters listed for the January session, which commence at the High Court on January 15,...

Work will continue to improve Moruca Bridge – Minister Persaud

Jan 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Work will continue to improve Moruca Bridge – Minister Persaud

While admitting that the work done on the San Jose Bridge in Moruca, Region One, has been poorly executed, Minister of Local Government Ganga Persaud has announced that efforts are underway to...

“Provide better services to residents”

Jan 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on “Provide better services to residents”

– Minister Whittaker urges Councils While the recent heavy rainfalls have drawn attention to the scope of services provided by the municipal authorities, the Ministry of Local Government and...

Disclosures of patient’s information raise questions about breach of professional oaths

Jan 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Disclosures of patient’s information raise questions about breach of professional oaths

Officials within both the Nursing and Medical Councils have confirmed that moves by any medical personnel, who fall under their purview, to disclose to the public confidential information, provided...

Tertiary education facilities limited in Region Ten

Jan 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Tertiary education facilities limited in Region Ten

– Political games places region’s development in limbo – AFC Region Ten Councilor, Mr. Audwin Rutherford of the political opposition party; Alliance For Change (AFC), at a press...

The politics of confusion or brutal power?

Jan 23, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The politics of confusion or brutal power?

To the average person in Guyana, the politics of the PPP is confusing and this may go beyond the average citizen, even opposition politicians and analysts. How do you explain the virtual runaway...

The Technical Committee’s work is of vital importance to the Economic Committee

Jan 23, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Technical Committee’s work is of vital importance to the Economic Committee

Linden is an industrial town. It was created around the bauxite industry and its future has historically been tied to that industry. One of the mistakes made after nationalization was the absence of...

Technical Vocational Education is in its best position in the history of Guyana

Jan 23, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Technical Vocational Education is in its best position in the history of Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, A letter entitled “What is the status of the technical/vocational education curriculum in our schools” (KN 2014/01/20), sought answers to the state of Technical and Vocational...

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GBF names boys’ and girls’ teams for Inter-Guiana Games...

Oct 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Basketball Federation (GBF) has named its boys’ and girls’ teams for the basketball competition at the 2026 Inter-Guiana Games (IGG), scheduled for October 23–25...

The politics of a box of cook-up

Oct 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – During the PNC era, a gentleman who had been persuaded to participate in one of the many marches organised by the government received a box of food at the end of the proceedings. He opened it. Inside was cook-up rice and a generous piece of chicken. There was only one small...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

The Great Game: right around here

Oct 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana now has more than oil in its hands. Guyana has a strain of this century’s Great Game now hanging over its head. It’s not the Great Game played out by Britain and Imperial Russia almost 200 years ago for dominance in Central Asia. Wish it was that distant, and...

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